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ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you are attending the Wednesday Night Supper, please check the number of meals in the attendance book. The meal for January 21st is BBQ, baked beans and slaw with rolls. Salad choices are: Grilled chicken, fried chicken or chefs. Dressing choices are ranch, blue cheese, honey mustard or balsamic vinaigrette. Please mark your choice under the meal on the attendance sheet. Put M for meal, GCS, FCS, CS for salad choice and R, HM, BC or BV for dressing choice. The cost of the meal is $9.00 for adults, $5.00 for children and $10.00 for salad.
Items needed for God’s Helping Hands – Sugar, spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, flour, grits, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, cream of potato soup, cereal, cookies, mac/cheese, noodles and canned vegetables.
Save the Date! Saturday, February 28, the United Methodist Men are hosting a Valentine's event. The single women of PSUMC are warmly invited to be our special guests. Tickets will be available for couples and single men beginning Sunday, January 25. Look for more information in the February newsletter.
There will be a Worship Committee Meeting today after the Worship Service.
Human Relations Day is one of six churchwide Special Sundays with offerings of The United Methodist Church. Human Relations Day calls United Methodists to recognize the right of all God’s children in realizing their potential as human beings in relationship with one another. The special offering benefits neighborhood ministries through Community Developers, community advocacy through United Methodist Voluntary Services and work with at-risk teens through the Youth Offender Rehabilitation Program.
Handbell rehearsals for Easter will begin on February 1. Everyone is welcome and no experience is necessary. Rehearsals are on Sundays at 12 o’clock. Please see Janet if interested.
Agnes Pittman would like to thank Debbie Summers, The Joy Group and the church for the fruit basket.
The office will be closed on Monday, January 19th in observance of Martin Luther King Day.
Worship Service for January 18, 2026
Service of Worship
Platt Springs United Methodist Church
West Columbia, SC
January 18, 2026 – 11 A.M.
Human Relations Day (offering)
Welcome and Announcements Marguerite Sterling
*Please stand as the light of Christ is brought forward
*Choral Introit “I Will Call Upon the Lord” Choir
* Call to Worship Marguerite Sterling
L. Children of God, who has God called you to be?
P. A light to all the nations!
L. When confusion, disunity, and misinformation threaten to undo us, who are you called to be?
P. A light to all the nations!
L. When wars and rumors of wars in our communities and around the world overwhelm us, who are you called to be?
P. A light to all the nations!
L. When the vulnerable are left without care or hope for flourishing, who are you called to be?
P. A light to all the nations!
L, Come! Let us worship God, who gives us as a light of good news to all the nations!
P. We come to worship God, who calls us and equips us to reflect God’s glory and abundant life into all the world. Amen.
*Hymn “O Jesus I Have Promised” UMH # 396
Old Testament Isaiah 49: 1-7 (CEB) Brenda Gentzler
Pastoral Prayer (Followed by the Lord’s Prayer)
Young Disciples Pastor Debbie
*Affirmation of Faith “The Apostles Creed” UMH #881
*Gloria Patri “Glory Be To the Father” # 70
Worshipping God with Our Gifts, Tithes & Offerings
Offertory: “The Summons” Choir
*Doxology “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” # 95
*Gospel Reading John 1:29-42 (CEB) Pastor Debbie
Sermon “Come and See” Pastor Debbie
*Closing Hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness” UMH # 140
Benediction: And may the blessing of God, the love of Jesus Christ, and the presence of the Holy Spirit be among you and within you as you seek to do God’s will. Amen.
*Postlude (* We invite you to stand and participate when able)
Prayer List January 18, 2026
Surgeries/Hospital/Sick
Rick and Deree Stobaugh
David Brantley
Buck and Peggy Jones
James and Elaine Ward
Brenda Ettari
Sharon Grecu
Brad and Barbara Jordan
Sue Rhodes
Flo Johnson
Sylvia Allison
Betty Rogers
Becky Paynter
Barbara Hendrix
Nursing Homes/Assisted Living/ Hospice/Rehab
Paul Mullins, Debbie Summers's uncle
Jessie Sargent
Anne Piercy
Mary Ann Neilson
Retirement Communities
Lucy Eden
Helen Tarbox
Coretta Safriet
Shirley Ward
Family/Friends/Community
Ashley Steele
Vernon Cunningham, Sandy Cobia’s brother
Kay Pearson, friend of Jamie Guffey
Marsha Mathious, friend of Bernadette Weston
Addie Wilkerson-Pinner, friend of Laura Hooper
Bryce Schmoyer, friend of Vickie Hanks’
Raven Player, niece of Betty and Don Elliott
Tally Nesmith, friend of Betty Rogers
Trey Schmoyer, friend of Vickie Hanks
Audrey Barclay, Susan Basnett’s mother
Corrie Wofford, C.J. Baker’s step daughter-in-law
Kathy Mott, Marie Thompson’s sister
Wendy McDonough, friend of Jolene Flory
Tiffany and Adam Hunter, friends of Susan and Ryan Bressler
Matt Anderson, friend of Laura Hooper
Norma Kestner Viars
Matthew, nephew of Ryan Alexander
Maureen Ervin, Betty Rogers’ sister-in-law
Marilyn Persinger, Noble Miller’s sister
Roy Williams, Agnes Pittman’s son-in-law
Christopher Luck, Marguerite Sterling’s brother
David Cassar, Wanda Young’s son
Vera Timmons, Betty Roger’s daughter-in-law
Zenda Leaks, friend of Emily Crenshaw
Military
Parker Albrecht, Navy
Zach Timmons, Marine Reserve
Donovan O’Dea, Army
Spencer Miller, Air Force
Bailey Roberson, Army
To keep in contact with everyone on our prayer list we're going to clean the names that have been here for several weeks. If your name, or a loved one's name, has been listed here for three weeks, make sure to give Melody at (803)794-3415 a call so we'll keep them listed.
PSUMC: A Great Place to Be.
Phone: 803-794-3415
email: melody@psumc.org
3215 Platt Springs Road, West Columbia, SC 29170
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